The boy who kicked the hornets' nest – Stieg Larsson's double life as an anti-far right activist in Sweden
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Newly published collection - Letters by Oliver Sacks – provides valuable insight into a curious mind
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Karl Ove Knausgård on the magic of Ursula K LeGuin, returning to Virginia Woolf, and the insight of Jorge Luis Borges
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The Place of Tides by James Rebanks review – a warming tale of gathering eiderdown in Norway
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Satu Rämö has caused a publishing sensation across Europe – all thanks to her novels about Hildur, a mindful cop who solves murders with her needle-clacking sidekick
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‘I’ve dealt with anti-hillbilly bigotry all my life’: Barbara Kingsolver on JD Vance, the real Appalachia and why Demon Copperhead was such a hit
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Beyond Bilbo: JRR Tolkien’s long-lost poetry to be published
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Native American author Tommy Orange selected as the next Future Library writer – will pen a manuscript that won't be published until 2114
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Greek poet who inspired EM Forster, David Hockney and Jackie Onassis emerges from the shadows
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Book borrowed from Finnish library returned eighty-four years late – copy of Arthur Conan Doyle's Refugees was due to be returned month after USSR invaded Finland
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My doomed career as a North Korean novelist
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Subversive, queer and terrifyingly relevant: six reasons why Moby-Dick is the novel for our times (2019)
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Jon Fosse: ‘It took years before I dared to write again’
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Scholastic to separate books on race, gender and sexuality for US book fairs
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Palestinian voices ‘shut down’ at Frankfurt Book Fair, say authors
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Salman Rushdie announces memoir, Knife, about being stabbed in 2022 - describes it as 'an attempt to answer violence with art’
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The US library system, once the best in the world, faces death by a thousand cuts
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Swedish crime novelist Camilla Läckberg has been forced to deny claims that she tricked readers into buying books she didn't write herself
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The Wolves of Eternity by Karl Ove Knausgård, review – long-lost siblings are linked across time and space in this expansive novel
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Debut novel by Millie Bobby Brown reignites debate over ghostwritten celebrity books
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Olga Ravn on her new hybrid novel about maternal ambivalence, her debt to Doris Lessing, and attempting to read Freud aged ten
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‘It's time the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo grew up’ – Karin Smirnoff on her shocking sequel
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Interview with Colson Whitehead: ‘A city summons you into its weird drama’
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‘I can’t stress how much BookTok sells’: Teen literary influencers swaying publishers
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Anders Behring Breivik's manifesto was listed for sale on Waterstones website – UK bookseller removes anti-Muslim document by Norwegian extremist
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Ann Patchett talks about her new book, running a bookshop, and resisting censorship
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‘The Norse Myths That Shape the Way We Think’ by Carolyne Larrington – from Tolkien to Marvel, the huge influence of Norse myths on modern culture
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Karin Smirnoff pens new Dragon Tattoo novel – picks up from David Lagercrantz in filling out the late Stieg Larsson's vision for a ten-book sequence
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Judith Schalansky has become the ninth author to be selected for the Future Library, which asks authors to create a work that will not be revealed to readers until 2114
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‘I just wanted my life to end’: The mystery of Agatha Christie’s disappearance
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US libraries report spike in organised attempts to ban books in schools
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HG Wells fans spot numerous errors on Royal Mint's new £2 coin
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Harlan Ellison's The Last Dangerous Visions may finally be published, after five-decade wait
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Ocean Vuong joins Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell and Karl Ove Knausgård to lock away work in the Future Library to be published in ninety-four years time
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Brandon Sanderson: 'After a dozen rejected novels, you think maybe this isn’t for you'
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Like Christmas: New Zealand's post-Covid books boom
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Terry Pratchett novels to get 'absolutely faithful' TV adaptations
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Norway's hazmat booksellers – two Oslo bookshop owners deliver books wearing full hazmat suits and gas masks in order to raise local awareness
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"Pyke notte thy nostrellys." A 15th-century guide on children's manners has been digitized for first time
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A new book by Greta Thunberg's mother reveals the reality of family life during her daughter's transformation from bullied teenager to climate icon
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Requesting an export of personal data from Amazon shows how extensively they track your reading habits
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Jo Nesbø: ‘We should talk about violence against women’
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Echoes of the City by Lars Saabye Christensen review – sacrifice and strength in postwar Oslo
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Protests grow as Peter Handke receives Nobel medal in Sweden – Turkey joined Albania and Kosovo in boycotting Tuesday's Nobel prize ceremony
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Nobel prize for literature hit by fresh round of resignations – two members of the external committee set up to oversee reforms quit on Monday
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Karl Ove Knausgård is to become the sixth contributor to the Future Library, which collects works by contemporary authors that will remain unread until 2114
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Torn apart: The vicious war over young adult books
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Novelists have condemned the Staunch prize – for thrillers without violence against women – as a ‘gagging order’, after organisers said the genre could bias jurors
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From Agatha Christie to Gillian Flynn: Fifty great thrillers by women
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Hunchback of Notre-Dame goes to top of bestseller list after fire
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